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Really fun stuff, Emma, thank you.

I am bummed out to find I am handicapped in that I don't know what some of the shows are. And not the ones some might expect--I know perfectly well who Bobby Jones is, thank you very much; it's some of those network shows I don't have a clue about. That's what having to have cable does to you, (in most of NYC we never got decent broadcast reception, and that got worse when the WTC fell,) you never look at all those primetime network shows, there's always a movie or award winning cable or PBS series, a news channel or something else preferable going at the same time. For example, I only know about "30 Rock" from what I have read about it in the Times. And many people in the rest of the country have at least seen parts of primetime shows from time to time, because even if they have cable or satellite or watch a lot on the computer, they have a broadcast TV or two or three blaring in other rooms of the house.

After a first quick look at the maps (I'm going to go back and look more) all I can say is that maybe I should change my tolerant opinion about Utah and Mormons! From these maps, it looks like a foreign country hidden inside the US! An insular tribe apart from its neighbors!

I don't know very many of the shows either for the opposite reason. Never subscribed to cable and since DTV, broadcast stuff is iffy. I do watch some of them online at Hulu or the channel sites. Since DTV, I cannot get PBS anymore even though I am supposedly in range of three different broadcast towers so I had to watch Masterpiece's Sherlock online. I had to look up the cable show for my county, Top Shot.

Some of the results were so counterintuitive that I wondered if some of the data was possibly skewed by special programming. Still fun though.

The subtext here is the Wall Street bailouts and foreclosure wave. All Democratic leaders essentially supported it. This is why there’s grumbling, but no alternatives. The Democrats have really just started their internal debate over big money. https://t.co/8XKgqvJYn2

Brookings Institution fellow Elaine Kamarck on Friday compared President Trump's rhetoric on immigration to "the boy who cried wolf. I think that the president at this point with immigration is like the boy who cried wolf," Kamarck, who also directs the Center for Effective Public Management, told Hill.TV's Jamal Simmons on "What America's Thinking."

What Blair had first conceived of as an elaborate joke was beginning to reveal something darker. “No matter how racist, how bigoted, how offensive, how obviously fake we get, people keep coming back,” Blair once wrote, on his own personal Facebook page. “Where is the edge? Is there ever a point where people realize they’re being fed garbage and decide to return to reality?”....“Nothing on this page is real,” read one of the 14 disclaimers on Blair’s site, and yet in the America of 2018 his stories had become real, amassing an audience of as many 6 million visitors each month who thought his posts were factual.